Source: Getty/AFP / Kudakwashe Regimond Tagwirei, Zimbabwe businessman DIPLOMATIC TIMES STAFF The United States Wednesday slapped sanctions on businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei and his firm Sakunda Holdings for materially assisting senior Zimbabwean government officials involved in public corruption. “Tagwirei has longstanding ties to the ruling party
Credit: Gary Raynaldo / Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield , an American diplomat who served as the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs in the United States Department of State’s Bureau of African Affairs from 2013 to 2017, was the moderator of Honoring Dr. Ralph J.
Credit: cars.com / Lamborghini Urus DIPLOMATIC TIMES STAFF A Houston man has been arrested and charged with fraudulently obtaining $1.6 million in COVID-19 business relief money, some of which he spent on personal purchases such as a Lamborghini Urus and visits to strip clubs. Lee
Credit: Linkedin/ Tianna Spears is a former American diplomat who worked at the US consulate in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, across the border from El Paso, Texas USA By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES For Tianna Spears, an African American diplomat, a U.S. Diplomatic Passport
French brigadier-chef Andy Fila died in north-central Africa Chad on July 31, 2020. / Etat Major des Armées By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES A French Operation Barkhane soldier was killed Friday in a maintenance operation in north-central Africa nation Chad after a
Credit: UN Photo/Manuel Elias / Dian Triansyah Djani, Permanent Representative of Indonesia to the United Nations and President of the Security Council for the month of August 2020. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – INDONESIA officially took over as
Credit: Facebook.com / New Guyana president Irfaan Ail By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Five months after voters cast ballots to Guyana’s general elections, opposition candidate Irfaan Ali was sworn in on Sunday as the oil-rich South American country’s new President. The election results
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Credit: Africom / U.S. Africa Command (USAFRICOM) headquarters, in Stuttgart, Germany By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES U.S. Africa Command has launched a search for a new headquarters for its Germany-based unit either somewhere else in Europe or the United States as American troops
Credit: icc.int / Former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Ivory Coast’s former president Laurent Gbagbo, who is currently freed conditionally by the International Criminal Court (ICC), has applied for a